{"id":507439,"date":"2026-06-23T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:38:11","slug":"tan-i-hope-i-can-qualify-and-maybe-play-serena-again-the-championships-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507439\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan: &#8216;I hope I can qualify and maybe play Serena again&#8217; &#8211; The Championships, Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on  June 28 2022, Tan caused a massive upset when she beat the 23-time Grand Slam champion 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) in a late-night thriller on Centre Court. Wild card Williams was then a mere 40 years old and ranked world No.1204. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was an amazing experience to play on the renowned Centre Court at Wimbledon,\u201d Tan recalled. \u201cIt was such a good match and I played my best tournament to reach the fourth round so good memories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a crazy week with a lot of press and everything but it was a good experience for me. And now when I play on the big court, I&#8217;m good because there were so many things when I played Serena. So now when I play a top-10 or top-20 player, it&#8217;s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone remembers her Williams victory but Tan claimed it was not even her best performance of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Then ranked world No.115, she proceeded to knock out Spanish No.32 seed Sara Torribes Tormo and then Britain\u2019s Katie Boulter 6-1, 6-1 before losing to future finalist Amanda Anisimova in the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back on June 28 2022, Tan caused a massive upset when she beat the 23-time Grand Slam champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-507439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}